Example sentences for: hinterlands

How can you use “hinterlands” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For the next three centuries Nepal had three city-states side by side in the valley — Kantipur (now known as Kathmandu), Lalitpur (now known as Patan), and Bhaktapur (also sometimes called Bhadgaon), along with their hinterlands.

  • He diligently applied himself to the kind of work allotted in the Stalinist era, documenting official marches and construction projects in the hinterlands.

  • Antimony is so called from Greek antimonos , against single(ness) owing to its readiness to react with other substances, but its chemical symbol is Sb, from Latin stibium , the name of a cosmetic and medicinal powder (antimony sulfide) used by Roman women as a hair blackener for their eyebrows, and in ophthalmology (of which there were many Etruscan specialists, thanks in part to the unhealthy swamps of Rome's Tuscan hinterlands) as an eye ointment.

  • They have to appeal to Swedish grandmothers, Indonesian teenagers, and tourists from the hinterlands of New Jersey.

  • American Movie suggests that there's no such thing as "the little people in the hinterlands" anymore.


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